---
name: "Jomo Fray"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jomo-fray"
fi1m_id: "jomo-fray"
imdb_id: "nm6161200"
tmdb_id: 1961560
wikidata_id: "Q116960057"
roles: ["Second unit director of photography"]
born: "18 September 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-24T03:30:22.248011+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jomo Fray

## Identity

Jomo Fray

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jomo-fray
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jomo-fray
- **IMDb ID:** nm6161200
- **TMDB ID:** 1961560
- **Wikidata ID:** Q116960057
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Fray, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116960057, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6161200/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1961560

Second unit director of photography. Born 18 September 1988 in Worcester, Massachusetts.

## Details

- **Work:** Second unit director of photography
- **Born:** 18 September 1988, Worcester, Massachusetts
- **Active:** 2021–present
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 78 to 78 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, History 1, Music 1, Romance 1, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $6m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jomo_Fray, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116960057, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6161200/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1961560

## Streaming the US now

- **MUBI:** [*Nickel Boys*](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md) (85)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jomo Fray is an American cinematographer. He studied political theory and Africana studies at Brown University and received an MFA in cinematography from New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Fray has worked as director of photography on *Selah and the Spades* (2019), *Port Authority* (2019) and *All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt* (2023). He served as second-unit director of photography on *The Underground Railroad* (2021). For his work on *Nickel Boys* (2024), directed by RaMell Ross, he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematographer.

He was named one of Filmmaker magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2018 and one of American Cinematographer’s Rising Stars of Cinematography in 2022. He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, jomofray.com, thehistorymakers.org.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The History of Sound* (2025), Fi1m 62, Second Unit Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/the-history-of-sound.md)
- *Nickel Boys* (2024), Fi1m 85, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md)
- *The Underground Railroad* (2021), Fi1m 86, Second Unit Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-underground-railroad.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Butterfly Jam* (2026), Director of Photography
- *The History of Sound* (2025), Second Unit Director of Photography — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-history-of-sound.md)
- *Nickel Boys* (2024), Director of Photography — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/film/nickel-boys.md)
- *Removal of the Eye* (2024), Actor
- *Clodagh* (2024), Director of Photography
- *All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt* (2023), Director of Photography
- *The Young Wife* (2023), Director of Photography
- *Runner* (2023), Director of Photography
- *No Future* (2021), Director of Photography
- *The Underground Railroad* (2021), series, Second Unit Director of Photography — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-underground-railroad.md)
- *Rage Against the Machine - Killing in Thy Name* (2021), Cinematography
- *Premature* (2020), Thanks
- *Port Authority* (2019), Director of Photography
- *See You Yesterday* (2019), Thanks
- *Selah and the Spades* (2019), Director of Photography
- *Nettles* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Third Trinity* (2018), Cinematography
- *Untitled Short Film About White People* (2018), Director of Photography
- *I Was in Your Blood* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Low Tide* (2018), Cinematography
- *Emergency* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Blue Christmas* (2017), Gaffer
- *Pregnant* (2017), Cinematography
- *See You Yesterday* (2017), Gaffer
- *Give Up the Ghost* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Modern Love* (2017), Director of Photography
- *Laps* (2017), Thanks
- *Heaven, Here I Come* (2016), Cinematography
- *Briefcase* (2016), Cinematography
- *The Big Dam* (2015), Assistant Camera
- *Your Future One Dollar* (2013), Assistant Director, Producer
- *Fleur*, Director of Photography
- *Kylie*, Cinematography

## Gallery

- ![Jomo Fray](https://film.one/media/person/10161/gallery-d68ca3e8e91c.jpg) Jomo Fray — Infinitecity21, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Jomo_Fray_at_NYFF_2025.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Jomo Fray](https://film.one/media/person/10161/gallery-6a5acf77ce7c.jpg) Jomo Fray — Image via TMDB
- ![Jomo Fray](https://film.one/media/person/10161/gallery-f7d55ffc94cb.jpg) Jomo Fray — Image via TMDB

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